Brief: One-car wreck kills woman

PORTALES, N.M. - A Portales woman died early Sunday after her car struck a fence on a country road in Roosevelt County, according to a Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office news release.

Joyvette Martinez, 22, died at the scene of the wreck near 1881 South Roosevelt Road 7, a mile south of Portales.

A preliminary investigation indicated that Martinez was traveling at a high rate of speed when her maroon 1990 Grand Am left the roadway and struck a pipe fence at about 2:45 a.m., according to the news release.

Martinez, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from the vehicle, according to the release.

Martinez's body was sent for autopsy to the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque.